8 days

Only 8 more days.. I can do it!

17 more days

The days are dwindling down.
I am so excited to see the numbers in my countdown to Cam getting smaller and smaller. The past two weeks I have had my doctor’s appointments and have had great news. With Colton, my body never started preparing for him to come.. which is why we ended up doing the C-Section…. And while I still have the section scheduled for Camden (and we are going to have one no matter what).. my doctor says that I am progressing right along. Two weeks ago he told me that Camden had dropped into place and he did not see me going until the 10th.. of course, he DID say “don’t get upset if you do make it, but I am just saying I don’t think you will.” Last Thursday I went and was dilated to a two. Let’s hope that this week I get more good news.
Work has been very busy for me with deadlines galore, so I have really felt pressure to get as much done as I can.. all of our deadlines that are before the 10th have been met, so I kind of feel this sense of relief that I have all my loose ends at work tied up. I have found someone to work for me while I am out and I think she will do amazing.
The boy’s room is pretty much finished. We are just waiting for Colton’s toddler bed. We have ordered it, and it should be in this week. We are not going to transition him until after Cam comes and I am home. First he will take all his naps in it and if he does well, then we will let him sleep through the night. He is not yet two, and I don’t want to rush it. Until Cam sleeps through the night, he will sleep in the pack and play bassinet. I don’t want him keeping Colton awake or us disturbing Colton’s sleep pattern in any way.
I just can’t believe that soon I will have another sweet baby!!! Colton does so well with his Anna Claire (Leah and Brandon’s precious daughter). He loves to help his Granny and Tia Leah with any task they give him, getting diapers, bottles, paci’s.. you name it. He loves to take off her socks and touch her toes, and we have lost count of how many times a day he comes up to just kiss her on her head… I hope he loves his brother as much as he loves his Claire.
Colton is such a sweet boy. He has started talking so well.. not really putting complete sentences together, but getting there. He has so many words in his vocabulary.. some that I wish I could erase (like NO). His new thing right now is to run up to you and say “hold you” and then you pick him up and he squeezes your neck.. just at random times in the day… this my friends, is what makes my world right.
As for me, well, I am feeling half way ok  I will not lie, this is a total different pregnancy than with Colton. With Colton, I worked every day up until the day I had him. With Camden, I find it hard to walk sometimes and have had to take a couple of half days here and there to go home and put my feet up. Starting this week, I will probably take more and more half days until he comes.
Jett is doing great after his knee surgery. He is having a little more pain as the days go on, probably because he does not sit as much as he should, and he over does it.. but, what can you say?? Typical man!! But he has really done much better than we had anticipated!! Thank the Lord!
I will update more on Friday after my doctor’s appointment!

33 days til Cam comes and I decide on major projects :)

Hey everyone!

When I was pregnant with Colton, we did not find out if he was a he or a she, so in preparing the nursery, we went all neutral. As Colton has gotten older, we started putting more and more Texas Tech stuff in there.. and now that we know Cam is a boy we decided to redo the whole thing in Tech stuff. I am blessed to work with an amazing girl, Priscilla, who is student teaching this semester and will eventually be an art teacher. She is amazing. She offered to paint some pictures for the boys. I said sure, with no real idea what I wanted. We finally decided on some things and after seeing the outcome, I insisted on paying her.. they are amazing!!

So, if you like and are interested, please email me at shaunawalker01@gmail.com and I will get you in touch with her.. she is so talented and does many different things.. nursery paintings to paintings for your dining room or bedroom. She is VERY reasonable in price.. so email me :) Plus you would be helping to support a future edcuator and Lord knows we need good ones like her!

See below for the pictures of their room. we are ordering Colton's toddler bed and when I am home on maternity leave we will transition him into it, during the day he can take his naps in it while I am awake to make sure he does not roam the house :)


This is the HUGE toy box that Jett and his brother and Dad built for the boys last time they were down. It is massive and I am sure the boys will enjoy for years to come!



You can't really read the words in this picture but this is the TTU Matador song


This is our fight song.. WRECK 'EM TECH


Colton's side of the bedroom


Another view


Coltons TTU Jersey


Cam's side


Cam again





Camden's Jersey


Both Jerseys

Camden Joshua Walker

Had a great doctor's appt on Friday.. he went ahead and scheduled my c section for September 10th at 11:00 AM!!! An end in sight! 45 days from today (unless he makes his appearence earlier!!)

I am really excited and READY!!!

A Home for Quincy

Well, we finally did it. We stuck with our decision to go ahead and try to find a good home for our black Lab Quincy... The story is pretty cool... I placed an ad in the paper and the lady who took the ad called back to say that her and her husband wanted him!! It was a match made in Heaven.. they live out in the country, with 30 acres of land, with a pond and five other dogs.. Erin has emailed me every day, telling me Quincy stories.. he LOVES it there, and in fact, has a new girlfriend, Kadence who is a pit bull ( I think). It really has worked out for the best.

With Quincy gone, we realized we needed to get our back patio cleaned up and re vamped. So that is what we did this weekend. I have some before and after shots that I will post soon. We borrowed Darren's power washer and washed off the whole back patio and driveway.. YUCK is all I can say.. it looks SO MUCH BETTER.

On Saturday, Dana and I went to the nursery and bought lots of plants and planters and spent the day making the patio more homey. Jett and I went to home depot and picked out the patio furniture we liked which was on sale.. SCORE!.. all in all, it was a very successful weekend!!!

We miss Quincy, but we know he is so much happier in his new home.. we are so thankful at how things turned out! :)

Here are some pictures for you to enjoy :)


This is half of the patio... with my new furniture.. you can kind of see some of my plants :) I LOVE IT


Isn't he so darn cute!


Nan bought him these glasses when we were in NM!


HANDSOME lil man


He also likes Momma's glasses


So Cool

Concan

WOW.. I am so far behind!!! :)

For the annual 4th of July get together with the family, we decided that instead of going to the lake, we wanted to head back to Concan. It was SO.MUCH.FUN. We found a cabin that we rented, which was so very nice! The room that Jett, Colton, Kent Sarah and I shared had NO AIR conditioning though, so on the first night we made a fun filled trip to Walmart 40 miles away to pick up some box fans!

The river was very low, in fact too low to actually tube. We went down and sat in it once, which was nice, but due to me being 7 months pregnant the slippery rocks were not very safe. Instead, we spent a LOT of time in the cold tub (hot tub with no heat!)

I think the very best thing for me was watching Colton and Eli.. I just know they are going to grow up to be as close as Jett and Kent.. we had a lot of laughs ... Jett and Kent are still as big of nerds as they have always been, age has not matured them in the least (which I guess could be a good thing??)

Here are a few pictures:



He loves his cheesy grin!


Sam


Game time


Colton sharing his juice with Eli


Took them two days, but they put this 10000 piece puzzle together and not a single piece was missing!


Sweet kisses


My presh Eli


Give me the monkey




NO



How bout a kiss instead??

Old Fort Days/Reagan Rally

It is no suprise to anyone when I say that this past year has been really tough on our family. The biggest worry on our plate has been of our sweet Reagan, who as you know if you read my blogs is my 7 year old little cousin that was diagnosed with a Whelms tumor. She has been going through chemo and lots of tests for the past year. Well, our home town of Ft. Sumner has an annual event each year that is a weekend long celebration. I thought that would be the perfect opportunity to get together with as many family members, ESPECIALLY cousins, as we can. I decided to have a Reagan Rally to raise money for cancer research..

Krista, Colton and I flew to Lubbock on Tuesday. Darla picked us up, we ran by and saw David and Aric and then I made a flying trip through Sam's to get groceries for the week. Then Darla drove us to Muleshoe where we met up with Nana. We switched vehicles ( I wish I had taken a picture of how much stuff I bought!), we barely fit! We spent Tuesday night and Wednesday night with Nana and Peepaw. It was so great to see them and hang out and let Colton get to know them again..we had some great home cooked meals. Colton especially enjoyed visiting Nana at the office:

Well, I think that price is a little too high...


Do you hear my phone?


Let me check my calendar


Mom, enough pictures

On Thursday morning, we packed up our stuff and headed up to Clifford and Molly's house. They just redid Grandma Cathy's place and turned the barn into a bunkhouse, and that is where the boys and Krista stayed, along with the Butler boys as well. The first night we just visited. Sherry and Bill West invited the WHOLE group out to their house and they cooked us steaks and potatos, the whole 9 yards!! It was so great to be around everyone.


Reagan lent Colton her stick horse, but we had to figure out the batteries!


Grandad and Colton had a grand time


Three generations


Is it fixed yet?

Zach also saddled up gooch, the oldest horse on the planet and made Colton the happiest baby in the world!!


Dear Jesus (Or Pop Pop or Santa).. if you would only bring me a horse like this at my house, I will be the best baby ever! Amen.


Momma, do you see me????



Cheese ball

On Friday, Molly, Clifford and Reagan had to go to Lubbock for Reagan to get her final scans. I felt so blessed that we could all be there and pray for her, and feel that connection. While they were gone, we had to get the Reagan Rally set up. Now, let me talk about my hero, Amanda Kenyon. You see, I emailed her and asked if she would help me run a couple of small games after the Old Fort Days sponsored games. She said of course (as usual). She went to the chamber to ask and came out in charge of EVERYTHING OLD FORT DAYS. Ok, that is a little exaggerated but.. she took on a LOT.. that is to say the least.. I could write pages and pages about how much she did for this to turn it into the success that it was.

Well, we got started on the little games, and up runs Reagan, they made it back JUST IN TIME!!


Reagan and her best friend Katy (Amanda and Rusty's oldest daughter) running the tombstone race.


Always protect the face!


You have heard of kissing cousins, right?


Working hard


Makin a dollar

On Saturday, we started off at the cow plop.. only in a small farm town will you have people stand around a fenced in cow, waiting for it to poop. It's like bingo.. if it poops in the square you bough, you win! And lo and behold, Uncle Mike won second place :) I thought I had pictures of this, but I don't. Kyla is sending some my way.

Then we went on to the parade.. Colton LOVED IT! (I was burning up hot, but he had fun)


ohhhh did you hear that noise mommy


Man, Pop should bring his car to this parade


Momma I am HOT

After the parade we went and ran the horseshoe tourney.. and sold water again for a dollar for the Reagan Rally fund. (no pictures of this either)

Sunday we got up and packed and then headed back to Lubbock. Molly, Colton and I drove together and Krista, Kyla and Zach drove together. Zach and Molly were headinng to get Zach registered for Dallas Baptist College (GO ZACH!).. we were all exhausted but man, we had a great time.

I am so very blessed beyond words at the people I have in my life. This renewed me and made me remember how lucky I am.

The icing on the cake, Molly sent out a mass text on Monday that the scans came back clear on Reagan.. our prayers were answered. Not that we can stop praying, it is going to take Reagan time to heal and gain all her strength back, but we cannot thank each of you enough for your thoughts and prayers for our family!!


When we were in Lubbock, Colton decided he was now officially a cowboy, so Uncle Aric, Aunt Ash and Aunt Brit bought him his first cowboy hat.. oh my GOSH, he has not taken it off since we have been home:








Sweet


Aunt Ash


Uncle Aric











Momma and Colton
Love,
Shauna and the rest of us!!